U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

For the first time ever, research led by one of Utrecht University's earth scientists—Dr ... Sea from the ocean and forming mega lake Paratethys, the largest lake ever. Palcu and his colleagues ...

Tire tracks stretched across the flat lake bed to the horizon. We followed them in a Suzuki 4x4, looking for clues about what’s happened to ... face in a warming world, the starkest examples ...

Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

With a surface elevation of 12,507 feet (3,812 metres), it is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. What’s more, it is the largest lake in South America, both in terms of water ...

But while these structures often steal the spotlight, there is something fascinating about the world’s largest man-made lake based on surface area. Created by flooding entire villages and ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...